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Jamie Franklin

Hailing from the United Kingdom, I have moved to Amsterdam to study a Masters in New Media. Over the past two years I have worked on a range of factual and documentary films, finding and filming with contributors and great locations in the UK and abroad. I am fascinated by the role New Media has been playing in the Middle Eastern and North African uprisings.

I like: Mad Men, Motorsport, Milton Keynes Dons, Morrissey, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Facebook, The Guardian, Louis Theroux

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Do you remember the first time? Music and the rise of the ‘scented candle’

Do you remember the first time? Music and the rise of the ‘scented candle’

I grew up listening to Pulp. I vividly remember lying outside my older sisters’ bedroom as she played Different Class from her multi-CD changer Hi-Fi, while I pushed myself up against her door, devouring Jarvis’ every word. Outside, unbeknown...
By Jamie Franklin on 10/18/11 Comments Off on Do you remember the first time? Music and the rise of the ‘scented candle’

New Media and the Syrian uprisings: one student’s perspective.

Edward Said wrote in his book Covering Islam that historically the western mass media have exercised the power of representation over the (in this case) Islamic ‘other’ and suppresses the possible multiplicity of 800 000 000 global Islamic citizens...
By Jamie Franklin on 10/14/11 1
A review of the PostSecret app. Please don’t tell anyone

A review of the PostSecret app. Please don’t tell anyone

I am a part of a small group of new media students who have set the wheels in motion on a practical project designed to study anonymity has in regards to honestly online. We intend to investigate how people...
By Jamie Franklin on 10/04/11 Comments Off on A review of the PostSecret app. Please don’t tell anyone
“What are your religious beliefs?” – a question of if religion becomes public again in social networking

“What are your religious beliefs?” – a question of if religion becomes public again in social networking

Events of April 2011 sparked much controversy as the French government declared the public wearing of niqabs and burqas illegal for the first time. The response to this was defiance by many in France who define themselves as Muslim...
By Jamie Franklin on 09/29/11 4

Review of Nancy Baym’s Personal Connections in the Digital Age

It is often the narcissistic tendencies of academics which alienates a much wider potential readership of their work. A use of language and content that predicates a certain level of cultural capital renders many articles inaccessible to a number...
By Jamie Franklin on 09/16/11 Comments Off on Review of Nancy Baym’s Personal Connections in the Digital Age

‘Headdesking’ and Beyond: The British Uprisings

‘Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not...
By Jamie Franklin on 09/12/11 2